linux-kernel - Re: untangle the <asm/siginfo.h> mess

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Date:   Tue, 6 Jun 2017 12:57:11 +0200
From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
        linux-arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
        sparclinux <sparclinux@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: untangle the <asm/siginfo.h> mess

On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 at 9:00 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de> wrote:
> We currently have uapi versions of <asm/siginfo.h> which at least on a few
> architectures define bits of the userspace ABI before including an uapi
> asm-generic version, and also non-uapi versions which do almost nothing
> except for making sure other headers include the right uapi one before
> including an asm-generic that defined two prototypes and a few defines
> that aren't architecture specific in any.
>
> This series completely gets rid of the non-uapi versions and cleans up
> various small bits on the way.
>
> Note that Thomas has some posix-timers work overlapping with this, so
> it might make sense to take these through the tip tree.

Yes, makes sense. For asm-generic:

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>